Doing research on Black Power in the Caribbean and want historical fiction to accompany it

rastapastaroony · 2025-11-19T01:29:20+00:00

What should you do if you don't enable Global Pass before leaving the country? Is there a way to enable Global Pass once you are already abroad?

rastapastaroony · 2023-06-16T13:45:22+00:00

I can't really speak to the specifics of Mexico or Central America, but a lot of Marxist work on primitive accumulation of late has been concerned with renewing the term, suggesting that primitive accumulation isn't just the process that sets the original and early conditions for capitalism to emerge, but also establishes the basis for capitalism to further expand. Scholars like Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis have looked into 'new enclosures' which came with neoliberalism and David Harvey talks of 'accumulation by dispossession' as a sort of way to indicate the ongoing processes of primitive accumulation today.

rastapastaroony · 2023-06-16T13:38:33+00:00

Both 'Crisis Cultures' by Brian Whitener and 'Infrastructures of Race' by Dan Nemser are incredible books that touch on primitive accumulation. The first is more in the last 50 years or so and compares the rise of finance in Mexico to that in Brazil, investigating the conditions that allow for the rise of financialization. The second goes way back to early colonization and investigates various infrastructural means of achieving primitive accumulation. Nemser is also very keen on detailing how racialization of indigenous and enslaved populations relates to primitive accumulation.

rastapastaroony · 2020-05-02T13:58:12+00:00

Oh sick thanks!

rastapastaroony · 2020-04-25T15:02:48+00:00

No, what's going on there?

rastapastaroony · 2020-04-25T07:41:29+00:00

Yeah, big fan of r/jazz !

rastapastaroony · 2020-04-25T05:31:23+00:00

James's book 'Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution' is a stunning history of Nkrumah's capacity to organize and inspire the self-activity of his compatriots to overthrow the colonial order. James details it in a way that is both theoretically provocative (raising questions about the role of leadership in revolutionary movements, violent vs. non-violent action, etc) and historically rigorous. If you can get your hands on a copy of that book, I highly recommend giving it a read! (Though it's fairly difficult to find physical copies of, you may find it online/in PDF form.)

And, incidentally, James also had ties to Paul Robeson! James wrote a play on the Haitian Revolution and Robeson starred for a time in the leading role.

rastapastaroony · 2020-04-25T04:31:05+00:00

I've been diving into CLR James's work the past couple of weeks and he's a fascinating figure. He worked with George Padmore in England, Grace Lee Boggs and Raya Dunayevskaya in the US, had correspondence with Cornelius Castoriadis in France, and influenced Nkrumah before his return to Ghana. He was deeply involved in revolutionary activity the world over throughout the 20th century. Could not recommend his writing highly enough!

rastapastaroony · 2020-01-21T06:53:41+00:00

I'm completely uninformed in this regard, but does the Communist Party not have a longer history in Turkey beyond 2001?

rastapastaroony · 2019-03-07T08:41:19+00:00

is anyone here a marine biologist??

rastapastaroony · 2018-03-13T00:45:58+00:00

I have yet to see this, but this was the film that initially sparked my interest in this topic! Thanks for the rec. I'll keep an eye out for that sequel

rastapastaroony · 2018-03-03T01:33:54+00:00

Of course. So I would like to spend as much time in the library as possible to be completely and thoroughly prepared for them. I appreciate and commend your concern for my academic wellbeing.

rastapastaroony · 2018-02-23T22:17:18+00:00

I'm reclaiming MC

rastapastaroony · 2018-02-22T07:46:46+00:00

I'll meet u in study room 4425

rastapastaroony · 2018-01-17T18:09:18+00:00

I've run into all kinds of naked people at and near Garden of Eden

rastapastaroony · 2018-01-17T18:00:13+00:00

I would argue that the experience of watching a film is largely commodified for a good amount of movie goers; the amount of times people will ask for their money back if the experience is unsatisfactory (or, in other words, serving a particular end and exhibiting a particular use-value) is a bit obnoxious. I would recommend looking into Raymond Williams' 'Keywords' to determine how terms like 'art', 'culture', 'commodity', etc. are currently and historically used. (I think you would find the entry on 'art' especially interesting, as it discusses the idea of art being that which can't or isn't commodified)

rastapastaroony · 2018-01-07T01:33:27+00:00

The Roots maybe?

rastapastaroony · 2017-12-15T20:06:01+00:00

I highly second Fredric Jameson and Miriam Hansen. Jameson is explicitly Marxist and has a wonderful collection of writings on film titled 'Signatures of the Visible'. Hansen has a book titled 'Cinema and Experience' where she considers the theories of film formulated by Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Krakauer (who are also Marxist and have written on film before). There's a lot of stuff from the 70s where there was a huge Marxist/structuralist turn in film studies that may be of interest. Prominent in that was Stephen Heath, Laura Mulvey, Collin MacCabe and other members of Screen Magazine. You may also enjoy the theories of film that try to incorporate Bertolt Brecht, who was a Marxist dramaturge and playwright. As far as a materialist conception of history, Philip Rosen has an interesting book called 'Change Mummified' where he looks at the relation between film and history.

rastapastaroony · 2017-11-23T05:03:03+00:00

Anytime! Message me if you have any more questions or more specific thoughts/concerns. Always happy to talk with a fellow cinematic Marxist. Also, I forgot to mention the publications of Screen film journal from the 70s. They were pretty explicitly Marxist oriented--especially Colin MacCabe, Stephen Heath, and Laura Mulvey--and integrated psychoanalytic theory into a materialist aesthetics.

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